Knit fabric.



J, MONAMEE. 1 KNIT BARRIO. APPLIA'IION ILBD SEPT. 30, v193.7.v

Patented Sept. 15,1908. Y

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Witwen@ I citizen of the United Ststes.1'csiding :it Amsterdnm, in thecounty of Montgomery :md

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' ppucgtion med september so, reni. :serial N.'395,i97.

To all whom. it may concclrn:

State ofV New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inKnit Fahrics; und I do declare the following/to be a, full, clear, andexact description of the. invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it oppertains to make and use open portion will bewell-formed find hawe substantially symmetrical edges, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accom ianying (ii-swing, which is un enlarged View oi a port-ionof faihric embodying the invention, openings are shown zigzag oralternating with each other in the different rows or courses, but theycould be arranged in any other manner Without departing from the spiritof my invention. y

As the mainv portion of the fabric, can he formed in any desired manner,the ordinary structure being shown, and as the. invention is embodiedWithin four rows or wales of loops in four different courses of theyarn, I will describe the arrangement and process ot conv structing saidloops bv referring to the different rows or wiiles of loops, 1, 2, 3:ind it, counting from left to right, and to the courses as 5, 6, 7 andS, counting from top to bottom,

.as those loops and courses are. seen from the wrong side of the clot-h-By an examination o'r' the drawings, it will be seen that the yarn ormateria-l forming the course 5 is looped int-o or engages With the loopsof the preceding course in the ordinary4 manner, but that the alternateloops of seid course 5, as, for instance, i and 4, are drown out so asto be of double the length of the. other loops, 1 and 3, sind are.joined into or connect-ed ith the corresponding loops of course 7. Incourse-5 the Vern or material is passed through or looped into loops 1und 3,

of course 5, but posses nnconncctedlyover the elongated loops 2 and fromcourse. 5.

Loop 1 of course 6 is of the ordinary length and engages with the threador i'naterinl of course 7 in the. ordinariv Insnner, but loo i 3 issubstantially three times ihe length oil' the ordiniiry loop and, at itsmiddle, is extended .tli'islnimmcig noci laterally so that saidmiddle-is` engaged by Be it knomi that I, ums .\I N.\2.1nr.,':t f

the thread or inntcriiil'of,course 7, where said.

Loop 1 of course 7 engages with the corre`l sponding loop of course 6,und loops 2 and 4 of course 7 clivage. with the corresponding andelongated loops of course 5 in the ordinary manner; but the intermediatethread or material connecting loops 2 ond 4 of course 7 is drawn downand caused to enga-ge with loop 3 of course 8, nlong with the closed endof the elongated and laterally extended loop 3 of course 6. Thisarrangement of the intermcdiatc. three-d or materia-l connecting loops 2und -1 of cousre 7 with the elongation and lateral displacement of theintermediate portion of' loop 3 of course 6 forms an opening, 9, in the.fabric,4 from which the Fabric, derives its nome of mesh or opennrorkknitted fabric.. All of the loops of course. S are formed in theordinary mmner, und in nddidesired manner, und, hence, needs no otherdescription.

i l As an illustration of oneimethod of forming the fabric :is abovedescribed, I will describe it in coniiection with a circularspring-needle machine. With such iz. msi-chine, the yarn or Theremsinmaterial of course 5 is placed in position on the needles hytheoldinnry stitch wheel, but the 'yarn or materiel of course 6 isplaced in position on the needles by means of :i plugged stitch wheel,)logged one and one, as the word t"plugged" is understood in the trade,which is so arranged that the beni-d'3 -ot the needles which from loops2 :md4 are.

closed 'and the yarn or the material is carried outside. of the beardsof the needles upon which nre formed said loo s 2 and 4, but under the.beards of the need es u on which are l formed loops 1 and 3, :is the cyinder rotates. This is followed by si presser that is cut one und onewhich co-ncts with the )lugged stitch wheel in such manner that tieeiltpresser presses oil' eac-h needle under whose ezird the pluggedstitch Wheel has carried the yarn, but frills to prv-ss oli euch needletho t has no )':ml illu-ccd under its` beard.' ln" le when formingcourse (i,

. is flanked upon each side a needle that"v 'was not pressed off butwhich lhad yarn fur'- nished to it outside -of the beard,thusforxning-a' loop on each alternate vneedleonly and thereby rovidingsur lus material for forming the e ongated and aterally extended loop 3of course 6 bythe subsequent action of the machine, After the materialof courseY 6 hasv been delivered or placed upon the needles in thismanner, what I shall call an interchanging wheel is caused to engagewith two of the needles, as 3 and 4, so as' to cause their tops to becrossed before the course is ressed down, which will cause the materialorming loop 3 of said course to lie in such position relatively to theneedle of loop 4 that when the loops are pressed down by the clothwheel, or otherwise, so as to permit the placing of the material for thesucceeding course, and the needles are released from the interchangingwheel, said loop 3 will be drawn out and will extend around 'the needleof loop 4, and thus take up the surplus yarn or material furnished tothe needles of loops 2 and 4.

The material for forming course 7 is fed to the needles by the ordinaryunplugged stitch wheel which is followed by the usual wheels `exceptthat the presser wheel, cut one and three, is arranged to co-act withthe interchanging whee se that it will not close the beard of the needleholding the closed end of loop 3 of course n6'. Hence, there will be.two loops retained on said lest mentioned needle, while the loops onthe other needles will be cast off in the ordinary manner. The materialfor course S is fed to the machine by an ordinary unplugged stitchwheel, which is followed by the ordinary wheels, whereby all of the oldloops are cast oli` and new loo s are placed thereon ready to form theor' inary abrio. By constructing the fabric in this manner,

it will have substantially the same appear'- ance as the ordinaryknitted fabric, except that it will have regular and 4well defined -b*openings formed therein, the crossin s of eourse' over the elongatedloops 2 am 4'ofv course 5, without engaging therewith, not beingnoticeable in knitted goods.

Aprevious method heretofore practiced for making sleek-stitch meshfabric on a spring needle knitting machine was to transfer the loop fromone. needle to anadjacent needle by causing one of two loops to bepressed down over and around the two needles and then pressing oil thatloop from its original needle,y thus leaving the two loops upon oneneedle. lBy that method, which requires a very delicate manipulation ofthe loops, if the mechanism failed to cause the singlcloop to encircleboth needles a defect, called a dropstitrh was the result.'

Among the important advantages of my invent-ion over-other methods, isthe. fact that Y in the use of my invention no stitches or loops aretransferred from one needle to ano-ther; f 'i but the loop of' one,needle is simplyelmi-fl gated and both` sides of. the loopv carrie-dorwrapped around the adjacent needle, with out eastingotf or detachingthe-loopfrom itsoriginal needle, until the formation of a 'subsequentcourse. -A failure of the mechanism to pro erly manipulate theloops,:i1ijmy'A metho of forming the fabric, doesnot result.

in a drop-stitch? 'or other noticeable: clefect, the only result beingthe formation of plain cloth where an opening wassintended.V

In the drawing, the wrong side of the fabric isshown, that, is, theoutside of the fabric as it would appear when being formed upon anordinary circular spring-needle machine, as this View more clearlyillustrates the predominating feature oi' my invention, that is, A. theelongated and lateral .bend of loop 3 of course 6, or what I shall callthe interchanged loop or stitch. As heretofore stated, the abovedescribed and illustrated form of the fabric and the method of formingthe same"` have only been .given as illustrative,f rn"\` it is evidentthat other methods may be adopted, and the loops of the differcntcoursesinay be otherwise arranged, except that- `\the1interchanged loopmust be used in conn' ctiontherewith.

Having thu lfully described my invention,

what I claim a new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s'\: v i

1. As a new artic e of manufacture, an open-mesh knitted fabric havnxgone loop of one course elongated andibent laterallir at its intermediateportion and engaged by the loops of the two succeeding courses.

2. As a new article of manufact-ure, an open-mesh knitted fabric havingone loop of one course elongated and extended laterally, et its'intermediate portion, said intermediate portion being engaged, and boundin, by the oops 1n an adjacent Wale of the succeedin course, and havingits closed end engage y the loop in its original wale, and otlo secondsucceeding course.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an open-mesh knitted fabric havingone loop of one course engaged with a loo i of the prec ceding coursesaid loop being anked in adjacent wales of said course by disengagedfloat threads, said first mentioned loop being extended and bentlaterally at its intermedia-te portion and engaged by the loops off thetwo succeeding courses.

ll. As a new article of niai'iufncture, an open-mesh knitted fabrichaving one lcopof one course engaged with a. loop of the pre.- cedingcourse and the material or 'thread proceeding from cach side of thefirst mentioned loop passing over but diecrnnn-cted from the adjacentloops of said preceding course, said first mentioned loop being extendedand bent laterally at its` intermediate portimnsaid inesl tcrinediatcportion being engaged un that 130 loopsof the second,

side bv the 'loops-of an ad'accnt wale, andits closed end beingengaged ya loop of its own Wale.`

' 5.' AS "e new article of manufacture," an

'open-mesh knitted fabric having two loops of one (nurse extended andengaging with the comsngonding loops if the second course thcrefnnn. theloop between said two loops being o3' normal length and the loop of thesucceeding course that engages with said normal lmp boing of triplelength and extended laterally substantially at its middle lso as to beengaged by the adjacent loops on prisingr loopsl and 3 of course 1elongated and engaging with loops 1 and 3 of course 3 in the11n-responding wales, loop 2 of course 1 being normal and engagin at itsclosed end with loop 2 of course 2, in t e ordinary wa loop 2 of course2 being elongated to su stantiully triple length and its intermediateportion ing extended laterally and engaging with loop 3 of course 3, andits closed end with loop 2 of course 4, the material forming loop 2 ofcourse 2 proceeding each side of loo 2 in course 2 and assin over loo s1--'v and 3 of course 1, but not engaging with said last mentioned loops1 and 3, and the 1naterial intermediate of loops 1 and 3 of course 3,-

being drawn down and engaged, along with the closed end of loop 2 ofcourse 2, with loop 2 of course 4, no op being formed by the materialintermediate of loops 1v and 3 of course 3. s

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JAMES reconnais.",l

Witnesses:

ALBERT G. LUCIER, WILLIAM E. CARNEY.

